Marathon GOAT, Eliud Kipchoge, is set to become only the third athlete in history to win the World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year Award three times
Kenyan Legend and two-time Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge could join the upper echelon in the world of athletics, Morocco’s Hicham El Gourouj (3 wins) and Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt (6 wins), if he follows up previous wins in 2018 and 2019 with yet another well-deserved accolade for the 37-year old.
Fresh from breaking his own record at the 2022 Berlin marathon, on Sunday 25th September, Eliud Kipchoge has headlined the initial list of 10 athletes. Five more athletes will be shortlisted in November before the winner is announced in December.
The Initial list comprises Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco who broke Kenya’s dominance in the steeplechase by winning both the Olympic and Diamond League titles as well as field athletes Mondo Duplantis (pole vault), Anderson Peters (javelin) and Pedro Pichardo (triple jump). American duo Grant Holloway, the 110m hurdles world champion, and 200m world champion Noah Lyles have also been nominated.
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Other nominees for the Male Athlete of the Year Award include Norwegian Jakob Ingerbrigtsen (5,000m), Ceh Kristjan from Slovakia (discus), Brazilian Alison Dos Santos (400m hurdles)
A three-way voting process will determine the finalists with the World Athletics Council’s vote being 50pc of the result, while the World Athletics Family’s votes and the public votes account for 25pc of the final result.
Voting for the World Athletes of the Year closes at midnight on October 31. Fans can vote online via the World Athletics social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Like and/or Retweet and Vote now.
